The installation is typical. There is one
difference, because Notesbrowser can work on a stationary computer or in an
portable environment:

1.)During the installation you need to think about:
Do I want to use Notesbrowser only on this computer? This is default! Or will I
install it on a portable drive or even a cloud drive?

The difference is: a single computer will have static path for database the
portable will have relative

2.)If you want to use it on a single computer, just
install it in the recommended drive, usually C:\Program Files\Notesbrowser

3.)If you want to use it on a flash drive etc.
install it there, e.g. [Flash-drive-letter]:\Notesbrowser (e.g.
E:\Notesbrowser)

The same applies for Notesbrowser Lite and
Notesbrowser Editor!

After installation, Notesbrowser greets you
with a welcome screen.

After this, depending on your first choice, select
where should Notesbrowser save its data:

At this screen you decide where Notesbrowser
saves its data:

·in the default directories on your PC or
Laptop (this option is default) or

·in a portable mode, e.g. on a flash drive or
similar.

You choice will decide where database and settings are
located. Installation directory was choosen by you in the previous step.

1.)Save into user profile and documents
folder

With this choice the default Windows directories will be
used:

C:\Program Files\Notesbrowser Installation-directory

..\Documents\Notesbrowser Database+appointments

..\User Profile\AppData\Roaming\Notesbrowser Settings

If you don’t want to use a flash drive or similar: This is you option.

Notesbrowser saves settings and data where ‚normal‘ Windows Applications
should do this.

With this option you can choose button Change to
select a different path to put your Notesbrowser database. Only if you know
what you are doing.

This is for example usefull if you want to store your
database in a directory on the network or in a cloud folder, e.g. Dropbox. But
the installation shall remain on you computer.

1.)Save into the Installation directory

This option is usefull if you want to take (physically!)
away Notesbrowser with the installation, the database and the settings.

E.g. you have installed Notesbrowser on a flash drive (which
you are going to take away) and this means it has to save it‘s data also on
this flash drive. No data will be saved outside this flash drive, beacuse
relative path will be used.

Now you can take the flash drive with you and use it on
different computers - with your personal database always in place.

Example for portable mode with
a flash drive:

Wrong
mode selected (For experienced users!)

If you later want to use Notesbrowser the other mode, you
need to do:

1.)Make a backup (with the inbuilt backup in the settings).

2.)Better also make a full copy of your database with the Windows File Explorer.

3.)Deinstall Notesbrowser.

4.)Delete the settings files manually, if they are not removed by the
deinstallation. Or move them to a different location. If you don’t do this,
Notesbrowser will detect the settings files and will use them. It will not ask
you about the mode which you want to change!

5.)Install Notesbrowser again and choose the right mode at first start this
time.

6.)Recover your database and settings from the backup path. The recovery
will use the mode choosen at installation.

Freeform: Use the key F5 to start the Freeform Mode where you can set the size and position
of the notes fields (Pro Edition only)

Backup:
Key F9 creates a backup at once

Calendar:
Key F7 opens a small calendar

Help:
To open the help, press key F1

Categories

The 20 buttons on the right side are called categories.

The first category is named Tutorialat the first start of Notesbrowser and is usually indented, which
means it is selected. Select categories with a mouse click.

A category is best described as folder and
can hold multiple pages with notes.

With a right mouse click on a category a
menu pops up where you can change the name and color, e.g. use red color for
important categories.

Pages

Every category
consists of pages. They can be opened with the tab bar at the bottom of
Notesbrowser:

You can change the names of a page. Just do
a right mouse click on a tab and a menu will pop up.

You can delete pages with this icon:

You can add pages with this icon:

You can change the sequence of the pages
with drag & drop of the mouse.

Columns (only Notesbrowser
Pro Edition)

In the Professional Edition are small arrows
below or above the 20 categories. They look different for every skin, for
example: or

You can switch between Columns of 20
categories each with the arrows. If you are in the first column, there is only
one arrow below the categories, if you click it, there will also appear an
arrow on top of the categories where you can get back to the first 20 categories
.

There are 60 categories at all.

Collect notes

The main task of Notesbrowser is storing
your notes.

Notesbrowser is designed to do this fast and
the best way we can imagine:

First, it is always at hand: Notesbrowser launches
in the system tray and stays there, consuming
nearly no CPU time and memory until it is needed. If it is needed by you, for
example if you have an idea or find some useful information in the Internet,
just press the HotkeyF11 and Notesbrowser is in the foreground in less than a second to take
your notes. If you are done with the note, press the hotkey again or press key F12 and Notesbrowser
is in the tray again, lurking. Your notes are saved automatic.

Easy note organizing

If you later open Notesbrowser, the last
saved note is visible, because Notesbrowser remembers the last opened category
and page.

The many categories and pages give you space
to save to-so lists and address-lists, project information and more.

Launch Internet pages,
mp3s, files and playlists

In every notes field you can start these
links:

·Internet links can be launched with a single
mouse click

·Files and folders, entered with full path, can
be started with a double click

·Email addresses can be started with a double
click – you Standard email program will be launched

·You can move files per drag & drop from the
file explorer in Notesbrowser:

oYou can move and drop the files directly into a
notes field to insert them as OLE links.

Attention: This will work with single files only, and is only basically
implemented at this time.

oOr you can drop the files on the border(!) of
Notesbrowser to insert them with full qualified path - this will work also with
multiple files. They are inserted in the first notes field on the page.

·You can start mp3s with full qualified paths,
for example: C:\Music\Wham - Last Christmas.mp3

·A program needs to be installed that can handle
the file type, for mp3 e.g. Winamp, because Notesbrowser does not launch files
directly but directs them to Windows to start them

·Music playlists with full qualified mp3 paths in
a field can be played from the right click menu Play all

·Internal links: Write in a field (1/5) and double click
on it - Notesbrowser jumps to the 1sth category and there to the 5th page.
[1/5]
does the same!

So the first
number is the category, the second is the page to jump to

Notesbrowser is easy to learn

Most of the
icons and buttons in Notesbrowser have a helpful tool tip hint if you move the
mouse over the element. Do this with all icons you do not know!

If you don’t know what an icon or button
does, just try it. You cannot destroy anything! Also try a right mouse click in
different areas, because there are many different menus!

The scheduler (or reminder)
is a central feature which you can access from every page with the key F8. Another way to
the scheduler: You can click on left icon of the date preview bar.

Date Preview bar

The date
preview shows the next date. It should read Make Backup! now. If a date needs your
attention it blinks. A click on the left icon opens the corresponding date.

You can turn
this preview off in the configurations (key F10) and you can also move it to
a different location with the mouse.

Enter new dates

You can enter
dates with the button New date from the reminder or from the right click
menu. If the calendar and the scheduler are both open, you can double-click on
a date in the calendar and you can then set up a new date for this day.

If you have
entered a new date press Ok to confirm. You will see the new date appear
in the reminder.

Change dates

Open the
reminder with F8.

You can
double-click on a date or select it and choose Change from the right
click menu to change a date.

Attention!Please
note that the scheduler does not allow you to enter a date or time in the past.
If you try to do so the scheduler will automatically correct it. At the beginning, this is a bit confusing, but remember that you
can always leave the change date dialog with Cancel and the date will
not be corrected.

Set alarms

You can let Notesbrowser
remind you to dates. Notesbrowser needs to run to do so. But it can run
minimized and will remind you.

Move and resize the reminder

You can resize
the scheduler window and date preview by dragging it at its borders. Calendar, scheduler,
date dialog and preview bar can be moved with the mouse held down.

Insert dates in Fields

WithALT + D or you can enter the date
that is selected in the calendar into a text field. Text that you enter this
way into the fields is only text and not part of the scheduler.

Adjust the scheduler

The table with the dates
can be adjusted: You can change the width of columns in the headline by moving
the separators. A column can be hidden by
choosing it from the right-click menu.

Settings

In the
configurations (key F10) you can select some useful options, for example the start day of
the week.

Repetition
dates

You can enter date series.
Only the next date of the series is visible in the reminder, but if you reach
the date, it will be repeated at the next date and you will see a message.

Birthdays
and anniversaries

You can set yearly repetitions. You can also
set the birthday flag and enter a birthday of the person or anniversary and see
in the preview the age added to the preview text.

The calendar

F7 opens the calendar

With a double click on a date you can enter
a new date in the reminder (if it is open) or if it is closed, you will insert
the date as text in the last active text field.

With a click on the
settings icon (key F10) you enter the settings of Notesbrowser:

On the left side you can choose the detail
pages of the settings:

Settings: Info

On the info page you can see the
Notesbrowser Version, installation path, the settings path and the database
path.

Settings: Skins

You can select a Skin, this is how
the surface of Notesbrowser looks.

You can download new skins from our
homepage. Skins have to be un-packed and every skin needs to be in a single
folder below the Notesbrowser\Skins path.

Settings: Backup

You can backup and also recover your
database here!

Backup

Select a
backup path and click this button. Your database will be copied to the backup
path location.

Recover

If you have lost your database, you choose
the backup path to where the backup is and click the recover bottom. The
database will be copied from the backup to the database folder.

Usually, you will not need to recover if you
have accidentally deleted some text. With CTRL + Z (undo) you can undo
many actions.

You often also don’t want to recover the
whole database. If you want to recover only single categories, please read in
our Forum how to do this!

Also look at chapter 15 for more information.

Settings: Font

You can select the global font. It is always
possible to have more than one font in the text fields, but the global font can
be used to reset text with CTRL +
N or CTRL
+ Shift + V and also will be used in empty text
fields.

Font size

If you select Automatic, the font
size will be calculated depending on the Notesbrowser window size and your
screen resolution. Adjust this if a particular font is too small or too big for
you.

Settings: Controls

Show window on top

Choose this
to have Notesbrowser float in the foreground above other programs.

Settings: Layout

Word wrap

The word wrap wraps text lines in all text
fields.

Settings: Plugins

Plugins are Links to other programs and more, that can be launched very fast
from Notesbrowser with a right mouse click on the boarder or the icon next to
the system clock:

There are 10 slots for Plugins in
Notesbrowser. Some are used automatically, for example fort he MP3 Pizza Timer,
some are free.

You can define Plugins in every slot. Use
SET and then enter the path to the Plugin by hand or put a file per Drag &
Drop on the window.

What you can use as a Plugin:

·Every startable program

·Every file and every folder

·Every webpage

·Every Script file

·Email addresses

Some Plugins can interact with Notesbrowser,
for example the MP3 Timer.

If you click in a text field with the right
mouse button, you have some menu actions you can select from:

There are more right click menu with many
action in different areas of Notesbrowser. There is also an important right
click menu is you click in the Notesbrowser icon (if active) next to the system
clock:

Here is an overview over all right click menus

Right click
on:

Menu
actions:

Top left symbol

Help,
configuration, print, zoom...

Border (everywhere)

Start Plugins,
configure skins...

In text fields

Formatting, print
field...

On a page
tab button

Rename, Freeform,
page layout…

Category
button

Delete, print,
change color...

Calendar

New date, change
year...

Reminder or
date preview

Hide columns,
print dates...

Lower
corners (left or right)

Adjust
windows size

Icon next to
the clock

Start plugins,
Exit...

In some
context menus the actions are slightly different, e.g. there are four different
ways to print: From the text field you can print a single text field, from the
page menu a single page and from the category menu all pages – from the
reminder you can print only dates.

With the print preview icon from the title
bar you can see a print preview of the selected category. The text you can see
is generated and can be changed if you don‘t want to print everything: Just
delete what you don’t need from the print preview and then print.

From the text field right click menu you can
print a single text field, from the page menu a single page and from the
category menu all pages – from the reminder you can print only dates.

Internet bookmarks can be managed inside Notesbrowser.
Just copy the link in Notesbrowser, write some comments and you can click it to
launch the link in your browser. You can make different bookmark categories
easily.

If your Notesbrowser database grows, you will face
the problem that you don't want to lose all your information with a crash of your
hard drive or Windows. For this reason, Notesbrowser offers three features:

·auto saves
your notes

·every
category will be stored in a single file

·has
an inbuilt backup and recovery facility (not available in Notesbrowser
Editor and Notesbrowser Lite)

The backup is already inbuilt
so you don't have to use another tool.

To make a full backup of all your notes, appointments and settings
all you have to do is press F9or click on the backup icon.

We recommend that you change
the backup path in the configurations (F10) to another physical hard
drive, if you have two. This is because you can lose a whole hard drive in the
worst case. But rarely will you lose two hard drives at the same time.

The Notesbrowser database is
very small so that you can back it up to an USB stick - we recommend this on a
weekly basis.

Tip: Use the scheduler to remind you to make a backup!

Recover

Use the recover
feature if you have lost your database and need to recover you data from a
previously made backup.

Note: We recommend looking into the
Notesbrowser Forum for some very detailed explanation how to restore a database
if you have lost parts of the database or are not sure what is happening.
Please look in the F.A.Q. section of the forum. The information there is
updated often to answer all common questions, and we get a lot of questions
about database, backup and restore. You should know what you are doing, or you
may destroy your database and backups if you make a mistake:

3) Click on Select path
to choose the path where you backup is located

4) Click on the Restore
button

5) If you confirm, the
database from the selected path is copied to the Notesbrowser path

6) Notesbrowser will be
restarted and load with the restored database

If you
want to recover only parts of your database

If you want to recover only a single or a
few categories of your database, you have to do this manually.

Attention: The
following instructions are for experienced users only!

First you should open two Windows Explorers,
one with the Notesbrowser database folder and one with the backup folder.

Notesbrowser files are basically text files
with some formatting. One category is saved always in one file (see chapter Tips and Tricks).

It is recommended to use the Notesbrowser
Editor to open categories you want to look at. Use the Notesbrowser
Editor with the setting that allows multiple instances. Then open the same
category from the Notesbrowser database folder and also from the backup folder to
compare them.

So compare two categories directly and see
even small changes, use a text compare tool like the free WinMerge (http://www.winmerge.org).

With the above mentioned methods you can
spot changes and copy back every change you want from the backup folder to the Notesbrowser
folder.

Attention: If
you compare with your backup and you have moved categories in its sequence
after you made the backup, the files where the content is stored may have
changed. For example, the first category is save in this file: 01-01-Category.nbw

If you move the category to the second
position in the column, the content will be saved in 01-02-Category.nbw

The same applies if you move or delete pages
in a category – the pages are all always saved in the sequence they are listed
in the category and the sequence of the file of the backup may be different.

16.Notesbrowser Lite

Notesbrowser Lite is a lightweight version of Notesbrowser Professional.

Notesbrowser Lite is reduced to notes keeping and organizing. There is no reminder, no
calendar, no skins, no plugins and no inbuilt backup. Only 20 categories are
supported. Itis a small program that loads very fast.

Notesbrowser Lite is faster and smaller than Notesbrowser:

While Notesbrowser
offers a lot of space and a reminder and a calendar, Notesbrowser Lite
is more basic but can be used for actual projects and tasks.

Both
programs can be combined very well:

For
example you could use:

1)
Notesbrowser Lite consequently only for tasks and To-dos

2)
Notesbrowser only for reference and information bases

3) For
quick notes and current tasks you can also use the Notesbrowser plugin DoNextwww.wave-studios.com/donext or Notesbrowser Editor.

MP3 Timer is an easy to use alarm clock that
counts down and plays your favourite music to remind you.

For example you can set it up to remind you
after 12 minutes that your Pizza is ready!

To use the MP3 Timer as a plugin in
Notesbrowser, just put the exe file in the Notesbrowser plugins folder. Now
you can launch the MP3 Timer with a right mouse click from the Notesbrowser
border menu and also use it to remind at dates.

DoNext is a small free tool sitting on your desktop and is a useful for
taking quick notes. If you don’t need it you can shrink it in size.

The size and numbers of columns and rows can
be adjusted(with the small symbols ).

To use the DoNext as a plugin in Notesbrowser,
just put the exe file in the Notesbrowser plugins folder. Now you can
launch DoNext with a right mouse click from the Notesbrowser border menu
and also use all Notesbrowser Skins for DoNext.

Also,
to find out where a category file is located, move the mouse over a category button, and a hint
box will appear:

In the box
you can see where the category is saved in, for example:

C:\Documents\Notesbrowser\01-03-Category.nbw

You can also
right click on the category and select Open folder here to open the file
explorer. It will open the folder with the category file selected. This also
works in Notesbrowser Lite.

In Notesbrowser
Editor you can select this feature from the right click menu.

Every category
has its own file. They are all in the same folder. All other data like dates
and configurations are stored in the same folder in XML files.

In the Professional
Edition the columns 2 and 3 are saved in the files 02-01-Category.nbw to
03-20-Category.nbw

Notesbrowser on an USB
flash drive

Notesbrowser, Notesbrowser Lite and Notesbrowser
Editor can be used from a flash drive and started everywhere.

Read more in chapter
02 because this is is a decision you need to make at
installation time.

Command line parameter

You
can run Notesbrowser with the parameter “-m”. If you do this, Notesbrowser
will start minimized. This makes sense if you use this for a link in the startup
folder. The link properties will have an entry like this in the target field:

C:\Program
Files\Notesbrowser\nb.exe -m

The Notesbrowser setup normally creates this
link. If you don't want Notesbrowser to start on every system boot, all you
will have to do is delete the link from the startup folder:

You can also right mouse
click on the Notesbrowser logo to turn this mode on. It will be indicated
with a changed upper left menu iconand the Notesbrowser window
will always remain in the foreground)

ALT + Enter

Turn Full
Screen Mode on/off

CTRL + W

Delete
actual page

CTRL + E

Insert a new
page

Keys in text fields

CTRL + C

Copy text

CTRL + X

Cut text

CTRL + V

Insert text (or category or page if copied)

CTRL + SHIFT + V

Insert text
only (without formatting)

CTRL + Z

Undo

CTRL + A

Select all text

CTRL + F

Bold

CTRL + K

Italic

CTRL + U

Underline

CTRL + D

Strikeout

CTRL + N

Clears all formatting
of selected text (very useful!)

CTRL + +

Makes font bigger

CTRL + -

Makes font smaller

CTRL + TAB

Indent selected
text

CTRL + SHIFT + TAB

Un-Indent selected
text

CTRL + SHIFT + L

Add bullets to line, press more than once to switch to numbers

CTRL + R

Colors text red

CTRL + G

Colors text grey

CTRL + SHIFT + R

Background color is changed to light red

CTRL + SHIFT + G

Background color is changed to grey

ALT + D

Insert date that is
selected in the calendar

CTRL + ALT + áâ

Move category up/down

CTRL + ALT + ßà

Move page left/right

Navigation

CTRL + Arrow up

Switch to category above

CTRL + Arrow
down

Switch to category below

ALT + Arrowß

Switch to page left of selected

ALT + Arrowà

Switch to page right of selected

Enter

Switch from the description
line to the field below it or repeats a running search

SHIFT + Enter

Switch from the
text field to the description line

TAB

In a field
description line: Switch to next description line

SHIFT + TAB

In a field
description line: Switch back to previous description lines

All Arrow
keys áâßà

You can move
between text fields and description lines

Keys in the Professional Edition

F5

Freeform Mode (free arrangement of fields)

CTRL + 1

Switch to column 1

CTRL + 2

Switch to column 2

CTRL + 3

Switch to column 3

2x CTRL + 1

Switch tothe first column to the first page in the
first category

2x CTRL + 2

Switch tothe 2nd column to the first page in the
first category

2x CTRL + 3

Switch tothe 3rd column to the first page in the
first category

CTRL + Space

Maximizes a small text field for easier
editing, or minimizes it back

Insert

in the Freeform-Mode:
Inserta new field

End

in the Freeform-Mode:
Split a selected field

Delete(Del)

in the Freeform-Mode:
Delete a selected field

Pos 1/ Home

in the Freeform-Mode:
Toggle headline of a selected field on/off

CTRL + SHIFT + C

Copy the actual category (can be inserted
with CTRL + V)

Useful key combinations: Move content of a text field

With three
key combinations you can easily move all text between two text fields:

1.Press CTRL + A to select a field

2.Press CTRL + X to cut it

3.Press CTRL + V to insert the text into another field!

Key combination: clear
text formatting:

With CTRL + N you can delete most of
the formatting of text you have selected. But some formatting cannot be deleted
if they have to do with paragraph formatting. Here is a trick to get rid of
these formatting: